The Valle-Inclán Prize reaches its 14th edition, which has become "the great reference award" of the Spanish theater, in the words of the president of its jury, the jurist Antonio Garrigues Walker . "It is very easy to keep the ideas. The difficult thing is that they bear fruit," he said Monday during the meeting at which the 12 finalists were chosen, who will fight next spring to succeed a list of winners that summarizes the best of our theater Country: Juan Echanove, Angélica Liddell, Juan Mayorga, Nuria Espert, Francisco Nieva, Carmen Machi, Miguel del Arco, Carlos Hipólito, Concha Velasco, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Ernesto Caballero, Alfredo Sanzol and Magüi Mira .
Awarded by 'El Cultural' of EL MUNDO and sponsored by the Divine Words Foundation chaired by the theater entrepreneur Enrique Cornejo , this year's Valle-Inclán joins the condolences for the recent death of journalist and writer David Gistau . "A leading journalist, representative of the great literary journalism, with an extraordinary capacity for metaphor and adjective, and a personal and human quality that made him place himself in the places of greatest danger, not only physical, but also intellectual," as described by the language scholar and juror, Luis María Anson .
After several deliberations with tie-break rounds, the cast of finalists has been constituted as follows: María Adánez (for her role in 'Divine Words'), Alberto Conejero (author and director of 'The geometry of wheat'), Ernesto Alterio ( actor of 'Shock. The condor and the cougar'), Israel Elejalde (protagonist of 'Ricardo III'), Julia de Castro (protagonist of 'Exhalation. Life and death of De la Puríssima'), Verónica Forqué (protagonist of 'Las things that I know are really '), Emilio Gutiérrez Caba (protagonist of' Copenhagen '), Josep Maria Pou (actor of' Moby Dick '), Andrés Lima (director of' Shock '), Pepe Viyuela (leading the cast of 'Waiting for Godot'), José Sacristán (protagonist of 'Lady in red on a gray background') and Ana Zamora (director and adapter of 'Nise').
In addition to Garrigues Walker and Anson, the jury of this edition is composed of the editor of EL MUNDO Culture, Manuel Llorente ; the lawyer and writer José María García-Luján ; the director of the National Radio of Spain, Paloma Zuriaga ; theater producers Mariano Torralba and Robert Muro ; the collaborating journalist of 'El Cultural' and editor, Liz Perales ; the critic and poet Jaime Siles ; the set designer Ana Garay ; the presenter of 'The cultural hour', Antonio Gárate Oronoz ; and the journalist and poet Jesús Fonseca .
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